ASCII 190
Vulgar Fraction Three Quarters (¾)
Latin-1 Supplement
Three-quarter fraction.
Common uses & context
Decimal 190 (0xBE) is Vulgar Fraction Three Quarters, part of the Latin-1 Supplement (128–255). Three-quarter fraction. It renders as '¾' and its binary byte is 10111110.
This is where single-byte ASCII ends and encoding matters. In Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) '¾' is the single byte 0xBE. In UTF-8 — today's default for the web — the same character is the multi-byte sequence 0xC2 0xBE. Treating a Latin-1 byte as UTF-8 (or vice versa) is the usual reason accented letters and symbols turn into mojibake like é or €. The Unicode code point is U+00BE, and in HTML you can write it as ¾ or ¾.
All encodings at a glance
| Decimal | 190 |
| Hexadecimal | 0xBE |
| Octal | 0276 |
| Binary | 10111110 |
| HTML numeric entity | ¾ |
| HTML named entity | ¾ |
| URL encoding | %BE |
| UTF-8 bytes | 0xC2 0xBE |
Code snippets
JavaScript
String.fromCharCode(190); // "¾"
190.toString(16); // "be"Python
chr(190) # control char ¾
ord(chr(190)) # 190
hex(190) # '0xbe'HTML
¾ <!-- named entity -->
¾ <!-- numeric entity -->Programming notes
- ▸Single byte 0xBE in Latin-1, but the multi-byte sequence 0xC2 0xBE in UTF-8 — never assume one byte per character above code 127.
- ▸Unicode code point U+00BE; HTML entity ¾.
- ▸If '¾' shows as mojibake, the encoding declared and the encoding used disagree — align both on UTF-8.
Unicode & UTF-8 note
In Unicode this is U+00BE. In UTF-8 it encodes to the byte sequence 0xC2 0xBE. In legacy Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) it is a single byte 0xBE, which is why Latin-1 files often appear as mojibake when interpreted as UTF-8.
Frequently asked questions
What character is ASCII code 190?
ASCII code 190 is the character '¾' (Vulgar Fraction Three Quarters). In hexadecimal it is 0xBE, in octal 0276, and in binary 10111110.
What is 0xBE in ASCII?
Hexadecimal 0xBE equals decimal 190, which is the character '¾' (Vulgar Fraction Three Quarters). To convert hex to ASCII yourself, read the two hex digits as a base-16 number (0xBE = 190) and look up that code point.
How do I write the character with code 190 in code?
In JavaScript use String.fromCharCode(190); in Python use chr(190); in HTML use the numeric entity ¾ or the named entity ¾. In a URL it is percent-encoded as %BE, and in UTF-8 it is stored as the byte sequence 0xC2 0xBE.
Is '¾' part of standard ASCII?
No. Standard ASCII covers codes 0–127 only. '¾' is code 190, part of the Latin-1 Supplement (128–255, sometimes called "extended ASCII"). It is a single byte 0xBE in Latin-1 but a multi-byte sequence (0xC2 0xBE) in UTF-8.